Larrison Campbell, a female journalist, said on Tuesday that Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Robert Foster (R) wouldn’t let her shadow him because of her gender.
The alternate read, I think, is: “oh, so obviously he’s having an affair with somebody else”
I go out to lunch with married colleagues of the opposite sex. You know what never concerns me? Whether or not other people at work will think we’re boning, or what their husbands will think, or whatever.
Maybe Foster just doesn’t like Campbell (her reporting that is) but tried to be cute about the brush-off. One incident like this isn’t that newsworthy.
Well we have the VP who won’t be alone with a woman because “Mother wouldn’t like it”, and now there’s this asswipe who says if a female reporter shadows him during the last part of the campaign then people will talk of them having an affair, so it is important jim, it’s important because it shuts women out, prevents them from doing their job, and can hinder their career advancement. This is newsworthy jim.
“It’s not that we don’t like women, or think that they’re inferior, we just know that all women are going to accuse innocent men of affairs, so we just shut them out of the corridors of power for our own protection.”